Ben Christensen
Research Associate
Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolBen Christensen is a research-focused economist and data scientist with eight years of experience applying operations research, statistics, and decision science to public policy and defense questions. Currently a Research Associate at the Institute for Defense Analyses and a PhD candidate at George Mason University, he brings practical analytics systems experience from healthcare IT and econometric work at the Federal Reserve. He has taught and led teams—designing course assessments for large undergraduate classes and delivering rapid infrastructure changes at Epic—demonstrating both communication and project execution skills. Ben emphasizes continual learning and teaching as a way to deepen mastery, and he pairs a broad interdisciplinary toolkit with a habit of choosing the right method for the right problem. An often-overlooked strength is his experience translating academic research workflows into reproducible code and operational analytics pipelines.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Applied and Computational Mathematics; Economics, Bachelor's degree, Applied and Computational Mathematics; Economics at Brigham Young UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Economics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Economics at George Mason UniversityMaster of Science - MS, Public Policy and Management, Master of Science - MS, Public Policy and Management at Carnegie Mellon University - Heinz College of Information Systems and Public PolicyGithub contributions (5)
BenChristensen12/movie-recommender-system
Feb 2019 - Apr 2019
Contributions:16 commits, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
BenChristensen12/MSPPM-projects
May 2021 - Jul 2022
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
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